Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will travel to South Korea on Monday to shore up security cooperation between the ...

Masataka Okano is a 60-year-old career diplomat with experience in both Washington and Beijing and a former chief of the ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will break from his two predecessors and move into the official residence for the leader of Japan to become the first to live there in nine years, according to ...

Even with a minority government, deliberative debate cannot be realized unless the prime minister himself lays out the ...

Previous prime ministers were reluctant to move into the building, said to be haunted by the ghosts of men who attempted ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has given the official nod to significantly boost Japan’s defense budget to 2 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal 2027, according to the ministers of finance ...

Abe, who succeeded Koizumi in 2006, chose China and South Korea instead of the United States as his first destinations for ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will have a virtual meeting with United States President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister ...

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is visiting Malaysia and Indonesia on his first bilateral state visit since taking office.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will appoint Gen Nakatani ... a Japanese version of the U.S. Magnitsky Act, which would allow Japan to slap sanctions on parties it deems guilty of human rights ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru began a four-day trip to Malaysia and Indonesia on January 9, as Tokyo aims to ...

Japan's ambassador to the Philippines is hopeful that Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will have fruitful discussions with Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo on his visit to Manila next ...